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Unlike the candy-floss romances or violent revenge sagas typical of Bollywood in the early 2000s, Swades was a quiet revolution. It had no villain, no item number, and no melodramatic death scene. It relied on a haunting score by A.R. Rahman and a simple, profound script. Upon release, urban audiences called it "slow." Critics adored it, but the box office was tepid.